(5) JENNET WILSON, eldest daughter of John and
Jennet (Stinson) Wilson married prior to 1767, Thomas
Dougherty, of Northampton township of whose history
little is known except that he was a farmer in Northampton
and Buckingham townships. He was a soldier
in the Revolution being enrolled under Captain, afterward
General, John Lacey, in 1775 as a member of the
Associated Company of Buckingham, (i) He is taxed for
48 acres of land in Buckingham 1779 luitil and including
the year of his death, 1784. The list of that year being
in the nature of a census states that his family consisted
of fourteen white inhabitants.
In the year 1785 the property is assessed to Jennet
Dougherty. Thomas Dougherty died intestate in Buckingham
and letters of Administration were granted to his
widow. Jennet Dougherty, October 4, 1784; her brother,
John Wilson, and brother-in-law, William Simpson, becoming
her sureties. She filed her first account in December
1785 in the Orphans' Court showing a balance of
upwards of fifty pounds, but on March 12, 1787, petitioned
the Orphans' Court for sale of the forty-nine acres
in Buckingham of which her husband died siezed setting
forth that the personal estate was not sufficient for the
payment of debts, naming among the creditors, John
Wilson, Esq., John Miller, John and William Ramsey. An order of sale was awarded and the property later reported
sold to Thomas Carver, but no deed appears of record.
We have no record of the death of Jennet (Wilson)
Dougherty.